Feb 10, 2011

The Archives Service Center has opened for research use the papers of Frank Bolden (1914-2003), world-renowned war correspondent for The Pittsburgh Courier newspaper; K. Leroy Irvis (1919-2006), legendary Pennsylvania legislative leader; Percival L. Prattis (1895-1980), journalist with The Pittsburgh Courier and the first Black reporter to gain access to the U.S. House and Senate press galleries; and Tim Stevens (1945- ), past president of the Pittsburgh branch of the NAACP. The four collections represent almost 200 linear feet of biographical information, correspondence, subject files, scrapbooks, images, newspaper clippings, and other materials. Please see the University of Pittsburgh's press release for more information.